Scrubbing, sizing, starching, or other like machine



J1me 1934- J. H. BAYLISS ET AL 1,963,322

SCRUBBING, SIZING, STARCHING, OR OTHER LIKE MACHINE Filed July 31, 1933 3 Sheets-Sheet l lilQli June 19, 1934- J. H. BAYLISS ET AL 1,963,322

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Bgi h ss W 5mm June 1934. J. H. BAYLISS ET AL SCRUBBING, SIZING, STARCHING, OR OTHER LIKE MACHINE Filed July 51, 1933 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 lllll II P)! Patented June 19, 1934 OFFICE" SCRUBBING, SIZING, STARCHING, OR OTHER LIKE MACHINE James Harry Bayliss,-Derek Geofi'rey Bayliss, and Kenneth Bayliss, Edgbaston, Birmingham,

England Application July- 3'1, 1933', Serial No. 683,098- In Great Britain August 25, 1932 4 Claims. (01. 15-40) This invention has for its object to provide an improved machine for effecting scrubbing, sizing, starching and like operations on clothes and other fabrics.

The invention comprises the combination of a support for the fabrics, and a reciprocatory or oscillatory brush or brushes.

In particular the invention comprises a plurality of brushes or sets of brushes, in combination with means for imparting to the brushes or sets of brushes relative reciprocatory or oscillatory movements in opposite directions.

Also the invention comprises the combination with the brushes, of a pump for supplying liquid to the fabric through or between the backs of the brushes and down the bristles, the pump being actuated by the same means as the brushes.

In the three accompanying sheets of explanatory drawings:-

Figure 1 is a sectional front elevation, Figure 2 an end view, and Figure 3 a sectional end elevation of a clothes or like scrubbing machine constructed in accordance with this invention.

Figure 4 is a side elevation, and Figure 5 a plan illustrating to a larger scale than Figures 1-3 the two sets of oppositely reciprocated scrubbing brushes.

Figures 6, '7 and 8 are respectively cross sections on the lines 1. 1., 2. 2., 3. 3., of Figure 4.

In carrying the invention into efiect as shown, a liquid receptacle a has combined with it a vertically movable horizontal table or support I) for the clothes or other fabrics to be treated, this support being raised or lowered by the action of a pedal 0 or other means on a vertical spindle d. The table is slidable transversely on the top of the spindle, the connection between the spindle and table being effected by slide bars e and a guide block f. The receptacle a may, if desired, be provided with heating coils 9.

Over the receptacle are mounted two sets of reciprocatory horizontal brushes. Each set of brushes in the example illustrated comprises four wood or other bars 72 provided with bristles i. The bars h are arranged parallel with each other at a distance apart, and are detachably secured to metal bars 7', the ends of the bars it being preferably chamfered to engage complementary inclined shoulders on the bars 7. At one end the bars 7' are attached by dowel pegs Z to a bracket m secured to a reciprocatory bar 71, and at a position intermediate of their ends the bars 7' are secured to the reciprocatory bar n by another bracket 0.

It will be seen in Figures 4 and 7 that there are two brush constructions as above described, and

rollers r can be maintained without risk of leakage of oil into the receptacle a or on to the fabrics treated in the machine.

Each bar it is connected at one end by a link If to an operating lever u connected by a link 1) to a two-throw crank w, or equivalent device,

and the arrangement is such that the two bars, with their brushes, are reciprocated in opposite directions. The crank w is driven by a belt pulley x.

In association with the machine is arranged a pump y of any convenient form. In the example illustrated an oscillatory vane pump is shown, and this is actuated by a link 2 from one of the levers u. The pump draws liquid from the receptacle a and delivers it to the top side of the brushes whence it flows down the bristles on to the fabric. The amount of liquid discharged by the pump may be adjustable in any convenient manner. Also a stirrer may be provided for agitating the liquid in the receptacle, and this may be actuated by the same means as the pump and brushes. A grid 2 arranged over the receptacle beneath the table serves to prevent articles from falling into the receptacle.

In use the fabric to be treated is placed on the support, and the latter is raised into contact with the brushes. By the motion of the brushes and support the fabric is efiectively scrubbed either for the removal of dirt, or for impregnation with starch, size or other substance. the operation the support is lowered to enable the fabric to be conveniently removed.

When it is desired to localize the scrubbing action on the fabric, for the removal of, for example, a stain, the stained portion is raised by the use of a narrow movable support attached to the upper side of the main support.

The invention is not limited to the example above described, as subordinate details can be varied to suit different requirements.

Having thus described our invention what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a scrubbing, impregnating, sizing, starch- 90 At the end of ing or other like machine for treating fabrics with liquids, the combination of a vertically movable support for the fabrics, two sets of narrow brushes situated above the support and arranged so that the brushes of one set alternate with those of the other, reciprocatory members carrying the brushes, guides for the reciprocatory 'members situated beneath the latter and spaced apart from the ends of the brushes, and means for imparting reciprocatory movements in opposite directions to the sets of brushes through the agency of the said reciprocatory members, substantially as described.

2. In a scrubbing, impregnating, sizing, starching or other like machine as claimed in claim 1, a pair of bars constituting the said reciprocatory members, a pair of box-like structures constituting the guides, arranged respectively in spaced relation to opposite ends of the brushes, brackets depending from the bars into each of the guides,

and rollers carried at the lower ends of the brackets so as to co-operate with the guides, substantially as described.

3. In a scrubbing, impregnating, sizing or other like machine as claimed in claim 1, the combination of oscillatory operating levers associated with the reciprocating members, crank mechanism for actuating the levers, a pump for supplying liquid to the fabrics, and means in operative connection with one of the said levers for actuating the pump, substantially as described.

4. In a scrubbing, impregnating, sizing or other like machine as claimed in claim 1, means including slide bars and a guide block for enabling the fabric support to slide transversely, substantially as described.

JAMES HARRY BAYLISS. DEREK GEOFFREY BAYLISS. KENNETH BAYLISS. 

